Dialogue Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old dialogue quotes, dialogue sayings, and dialogue proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Sol Stein

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Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.

Tom Rickman

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A healthy dialogue is always good.

Michael Hersch

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Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

Josip Novakovich

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Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

Sol Stein

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Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

Brian Tracy

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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

Scilla Elworthy

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All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Elmore Leonard

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Good dialogue is very important.

Clive Owen

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Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

Paulo Freire

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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

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Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

Elizabeth Bowen

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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

Tim O'Reilly

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Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Max Casella

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Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Mark Udall

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

Peter Senge

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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Paulo Freire

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Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

Kevin Hart

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Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

Elizabeth Bowen

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It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Stephen King

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A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement.

Seth Godin

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Dialogue is character and character is plot.

George V

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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Sol Stein

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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Ernest Hemingway

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Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Stephen King

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The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Carl Jung

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Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Pope Benedict XVI

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The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

Ayn Rand

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Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

William Monahan

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Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying.

Robert Towne

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God's dialogue with us becomes truly human, since God conducts his part as man.

Pope Benedict XVI

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